| What is a good paraphrase for Benvolio’s words here:”I pray thee, good Mercutio, let’s retire.The day is hot, the Capels are abroad,And, if we meet, we shall not ‘scape a brawl,For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.” | Please Mercutio, let’s go in. It’s hot and the Capulets are out and about. If we meet we’ll surely end up fighting because everyone’s tempers are running high. |
| What event does this opening passage of Act III hint at or foreshadow?BENVOLIO. I pray thee, good Mercutio, let’s retire.The day is hot, the Capulets are abroad,And, if we meet, we shall not ‘scape a brawl,For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring. | The fight in which Mercutio and Tybalt are killed |
| Romeo is motivated to kill Tybalt because Tybalt has | killed Mercutio. |
| In Act III, Juliet addresses the nurse in a monologue that begins “O serpent heart, hid with a flow’ring face! / Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? / . . . Despised substance of divinist show! / Just opposite to what thou justly seem’st— / A damned saint, an honorable villain!” Juliet is responding to the news of which event? | Tybalt’s death by Romeo’s hand |
| What emotion is Juliet feeling in the “O serpent heart” monologue quoted in the previous question? | Confusion |
| In Act III, Scene iii, in Friar Lawrence’s cell, Romeo addresses Friar Lawrence in a monologue that begins with the lines ” ‘Tis torture, and not mercy. Heaven is here, / Where Juliet lives; and every cat and dog / And little mouse, every unworthy thing, / Live here in heaven and may look on her; / But Romeo may not.” What is Romeo referring to? | Banishment |
| Which of the following emotions can be inferred from Romeo’s words in the following monologue: ” ‘Tis torture, and not mercy. Heaven is here, / Where Juliet lives; and every cat and dog / And little mouse, every unworthy thing, / Live here in heaven and may look on her; / But Romeo may not.” | Misery |
| Why is Capulet so upset by Juliet’s refusal to marry Paris? | He does not want to be disrespected by being told “no” |
| Juliet loses trust in the nurse at the end of Act III because the nurse | advises her to marry Paris. |
| Why does Juliet go to Friar Lawrence’s cell at the end of Act III? | To seek his advice |
| A good example of a soliloquy in Act III | In Scene ii, Juliet, alone in her room, expresses her impatience and anxiety. |
| The central issues of Act III are: | Vengeance, forgiveness, obedience |
| Which scene in Act III is a good example of a monologue | In Scene iii, Friar Lawrence speaks sternly to Romeo about feeling sorry for himself. |
| The Friar, in trying to comfort Romeo, says “A genteler judgment vanished from his lips– / not body’s death, but body’s banisment…Here from Verona art thou banished. / be patient for the world is broad and wide” (3.3.10-16). The word banishment in this context means | exiled |
| Tybalt blames Mercutio for “consorting” with Romeo. A synonym for consort would be | associate with |
| In Juliets’ soliloquy, she states, “O Fortune, Fortune! All men call thee fickle. / if thou art fickle, what dost thou with him / that is renowned for faith? Be fickle, Fortune, / for then I hope thou wilt not keep him long / but send him back” (3.5.60-64). In this context, Juliet wants Fortune to be fickle because | wants fate to not be true, but to change so that Romeo can return to her sooner than later |
| Juliet is confused by the Nurse when she enters Juliet’s room after the fight in Act III. Juliet says, “what storm is this that blows so contrary? / Is Romeo slaughtered and is Tybalt dead?..For who is living, if those two are gone?” (3.2.64-68). Why is Juliet so confused by what the nurse is telling her? | The Nurse hasn’t spoken clearly; her words lead Juliet to believe two different things |
| In the beginning of scene iii, the Frair says to Romeo “Romeo, come forth; come forth, fearful man. / Affliction is enamored of thy parts, / And thou art wedded to calamity” (3.3.1-3). In this context, the Friar’s comparison of Romeo and Juliet’s marriage to that of a marriage to calamity means | Romeo and Juliet are prone to disaster and misery |
| Lord Capulet is furious with Juliet for not accepting the wedding proposal. He says to her, “For, by my soul, I’ll ne’er acknowledge thee, / Nor what is mine shall never do thee good. / Trust to’t. Be think you. I’ll not be forsworn” (3.5.195-197). By forsworn, he means | He won’t go back on his word to Paris |
| What is a synonym for fray? | fight |
Romeo and Juliet Act III
September 30, 2019